Errata
The errata list is a list of errors and their corrections that were found after the product was released. If the error was corrected in a later version or reprint the date of the correction will be displayed in the column titled "Date Corrected".
The following errata were submitted by our customers and approved as valid errors by the author or editor.
Color key: Serious technical mistake Minor technical mistake Language or formatting error Typo Question Note Update
Version | Location | Description | Submitted By | Date submitted | Date corrected |
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Printed | Page ix 6th paragraph |
On the fourth line, it says "writing a application", and should say "writing an application" Note from the Author or Editor: |
Sergio Majluf | Jan 10, 2013 | Apr 26, 2013 |
Printed | Page xi 7th paragraph |
Under Conventions Used in This Book, the "Constant width italic" heading is NOT set in italic font Note from the Author or Editor: |
Sergio Majluf | Jan 10, 2013 | Apr 26, 2013 |
ePub | Page Chapt1 A tour of the boards - http://my.safaribooksonline.com/book/programming/9781449344252/1dot-getting-up-and-running/_a_tour_of_the_boards_html |
http://my.safaribooksonline.com/book/programming/9781449344252/1dot-getting-up-and-running/_a_tour_of_the_boards_html Note from the Author or Editor: |
Ed Bateman | Jan 13, 2013 | Apr 26, 2013 |
ePub | Page * * |
Use of apt-get as opposed to aptitude. Note from the Author or Editor: |
Ed Bateman | Jan 13, 2013 | Apr 26, 2013 |
ePub | Page ch1 p3+ figures |
Figure labels are A B C D E, text references are 1 2 3 etc. In fig 1.1 and 1.2 |
David Lapointe | Dec 09, 2012 | Apr 26, 2013 |
Printed | Page 5 2nd paraghaph |
The last phrase of that paragraph is malformed. Seems that there is a missing and conjunction between "cheap" and "USB" so it would read: Note from the Author or Editor: |
Sergio Majluf | Jan 10, 2013 | Apr 26, 2013 |
Page 5 United States |
I. Power Input. The last sentence is "MicroUSB was selected because the connector is cheap USB power supplies are easy to find." There should be a semicolon or period/ capital letter between cheap and USB. Note from the Author or Editor: |
Steve Barrow | Jan 24, 2013 | Apr 26, 2013 | |
Page 5 I. Power input |
"On of the first things ..." --> "One of the first things ..." Note from the Author or Editor: |
Anonymous | Feb 11, 2013 | Apr 26, 2013 | |
Printed | Page 9 2d paragraph |
Section heading for "Choose Your Distribution" (following paragraph 2) merged with paragraph 2. Note from the Author or Editor: |
Terry Letsche | Jan 04, 2013 | Apr 26, 2013 |
Printed | Page 11 paragraps 1-3 |
Parts of paragraph 2 and most of paragraph 3 are repeated in 4. Remove sentence 2 of paragraph 2 and all of paragraph 3 to fix. Note from the Author or Editor: |
. . | Jan 04, 2013 | Apr 26, 2013 |
Printed | Page 13 paragrpah 1 |
Remove "a few" in sentence 1. Note from the Author or Editor: |
. . | Jan 04, 2013 | Apr 26, 2013 |
Printed | Page 19 . |
link to "Foundation?s online shop" is invalid. It is linked to http://raspberrypi.com/ Note from the Author or Editor: |
Anonymous | Feb 15, 2013 | Apr 26, 2013 |
Printed | Page 25 3d paragraph |
"...you can use rmdir if the directory if empty..." should read "...you can use rmdir if the directory is empty..." Note from the Author or Editor: |
. . | Jan 04, 2013 | Apr 26, 2013 |
Page 28 Second paragraph |
The sentence: |
Anonymous | Nov 27, 2012 | Apr 26, 2013 | |
Printed | Page 30 2d bullet |
The 'chmod g+wx wobble.txt' adds write and execute permissions, not read and execture, as the label has it. Note from the Author or Editor: |
. . | Jan 04, 2013 | Apr 26, 2013 |
Printed | Page 30 4th paragraph |
"The ping command is actually the most basic tool for troubleshooting network conventions." should end with the word "connections". Note from the Author or Editor: |
. . | Jan 04, 2013 | Apr 26, 2013 |
Printed | Page 32 p. 5 |
"The program apt-get with the -install switch..." Note from the Author or Editor: |
. . | Jan 04, 2013 | Apr 26, 2013 |
Printed | Page 37 code example |
radius should be 20 in this example, not 200 as in the printed code (to match with the given answer), or the answer needs changing. Note from the Author or Editor: |
. . | Jan 04, 2013 | Apr 26, 2013 |
Printed | Page 40 the code block above the pencil section |
at the code block above the pencil section, "while" loop is used, but "for" loop should be used instead. Note from the Author or Editor: |
Anonymous | Feb 15, 2013 | Apr 26, 2013 |
Printed | Page 42Using default value 1 Last cylinder or +size or +sizeM or +sizeK (1-245, default 245): +50 Command 1st python program |
the "line while i in range(5):" seems to be incomplete. When executed I get the following error message: "NameError: name 'i' is not defined" Note from the Author or Editor: |
Rudi Buntu | Jan 27, 2013 | Apr 26, 2013 |
Printed | Page 43 ist code block |
The lasl line of code reads "print(line) but the example from the O'Reilly website shows "print(line, end = ''')" Which is it? Note from the Author or Editor: |
john | Mar 24, 2013 | Apr 26, 2013 |
Page 45 code sample |
fill is set to 1 in section 2 of the code. As used later in pygame.draw.circle, it should be 0 if the circle should be filled. Non-zero values set the pen width. The argument is probably better named width. Note from the Author or Editor: |
Brian Becker | Feb 18, 2013 | Apr 26, 2013 | |
Page 46 note box |
We don't want to add another "while True:" inside the existing loop. Note from the Author or Editor: |
Brian Becker | Feb 18, 2013 | Apr 26, 2013 | |
Page 53 1st para in playing sound |
pygame.mixer split between lines without hyphen. Probably should not be split at all. Note from the Author or Editor: |
Brian Becker | Feb 18, 2013 | Apr 26, 2013 | |
Page 55 bullet 2 below code sample |
"Open port 2, the ouput ..." should be "output" Note from the Author or Editor: |
Brian Becker | Feb 18, 2013 | Apr 26, 2013 | |
Page 56 2 |
If you?re using the sleep() function, you?ll find that it is accurate to more then 5ms on the Pi. Note from the Author or Editor: |
J Ashfield | Dec 19, 2012 | Apr 26, 2013 | |
Printed | Page 56 par. 4 |
"... and the second tells describes each MIDI port." should be "... and the second describes each MIDI port." Note from the Author or Editor: |
. . | Jan 05, 2013 | Apr 26, 2013 |
Printed | Page 57 par. 1 |
"With this is mind..." should be "With this in mind..." Note from the Author or Editor: |
. . | Jan 05, 2013 | Apr 26, 2013 |
Page 65 note box |
The box says that Appendix B shows support for multiple bullets, but that does not seem to be present in that appendix. Note from the Author or Editor: |
Brian Becker | Feb 18, 2013 | Apr 26, 2013 | |
Page 71 1st para |
"The PicoBoard send ...", should be "sends" Note from the Author or Editor: |
Brian Becker | Feb 18, 2013 | Apr 26, 2013 | |
Printed | Page 99 1st paragraph |
The book sats: Note from the Author or Editor: |
Angus Pearson | Jan 12, 2013 | Apr 26, 2013 |
Printed | Page 117 number 2 |
"...from Wikipedia.and renamed..." should be "...from Wikipedia and renamed..." Note from the Author or Editor: |
. . | Jan 05, 2013 | Apr 26, 2013 |
Printed | Page 138 number 4 |
"If there pin is high..." should be "If the pin is high..." Note from the Author or Editor: |
. . | Jan 05, 2013 | Apr 26, 2013 |
Printed | Page 145 step 7 |
at the step 7, you said "replace /dev/rdisk3 with the raw device ..." /dev/rdisk3 should be /dev/sdd1 |
Anonymous | Feb 15, 2013 | Apr 26, 2013 |